Here are the notes from our May 15th meeting. Please feel free to amend.


Group A

Purpose:
  • Network recourses
  • Offer guidance to those who want to hope but don’t know how
  • Inspire/motivate emerging leaders
  • Build awareness of multiple realities of
    • Business à schools
    • Variability among schools
      • Rich/poor
      • Urban/non-urban
      • Ethnicity
      • Local power
      • Resources
  • Explore avenues to expand and/or expand resources
  • Touch the community
  • Access applicable business/management techniques
  • Aiding the transition from the classroom to the administrative


Outcomes:
  • Development of skills for success
    • Team building
    • Budgets
    • Decision making model
    • L/T planning
    • Strategic planning
    • Stress management
    • Time management
    • Applying/transferring knowledge to teacher
    • Mentoring
    • Difficult conversations
    • Interpersonal skills
    • Public speaking
    • PR/marketing
    • Entrepreneurial
    • Ethics in the classroom

Goal:
  • Provide legal access
  • Provide outreach
  • Get principal buy-in


Group B

Goal:
§ To develop a curriculum for assistant principals to learn skills through experiences and sharing of best practices.
o Must be real time and transferable.
o Give them time to apply what was learned.
§ To form a continuous model for leadership development
§ School improvement through community involvement and leadership development.
o Develops techniques to access to community
o Improve the educational outcomes (student achievement) through leadership
o Give tools to go beyond managerial and procedural issues.
§ Equip principals of tomorrow with these skills in order to be successful

Purpose:
  • To facilitate learning through the sharing of best practices, by engaging the community.
    • Internal sharing: schools
    • External sharing: businesses and community

Outcomes:
  • Improve student achievement
  • Create an environment of innovation
  • Give tools to go beyond …..?
  • Become pro-active rather than reactive
  • To become successful instructional leaders by becoming an agent of change
  • Be equipped with the tools and skills
    • Utilize tools and skills
  • To better equip principals w/the tools and skills to become proactive instructional leaders (final outcome)



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Need to have some sort of incentive for principals to buy-in the program so they will allow assistants to participate and apply.

Components of the program
  • Need based
    • Innovation
    • Strategic planning
    • Sharing best practices
    • Professional development
    • Running the school as a business
    • How to deal with bad employees
    • How to deal with unions
    • Communication
    • Handling the media
    • Team building
    • Negotiation skills
    • Outcomes


Whole Group Discussion
Level One

Managerial
Level Two

Leadership
Level Two

Instruction
Level Three

  • Strategies
  • Innovation
  • Change Theory
Level Four
Innovation
Reso




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Resource
Skill

Stress Management
Leadership B’ham
Strategic Planning

Human Resources
Leadership B’ham
Public Relations
Leadership B’ham
Marketing
LB
Entrepreneurial skills
LB
Ethics

Current Trends

Case Studies

Dealing with Difficult situations
LB
Team Building
LB
Negotiations

Change Master

Strategic Vision
LB
Finances
LB
Grant Writing/Fund Raising

Volunteer Management
LB
Managing Upstream
LB
Conflict Resolution

Culture Builder

Networking
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Needed by June 1st:
§ Skeleton Structure
o Objectives
o Program elements
o Goals/purpose
§ Application process
§ Who’s managing
§ Funding/budget
§ Resource management
§ Establish an endowment for funding